BelleBlackburn
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2012
- Location
- Nashville, TN
I belong to a group of historical fiction writers. Most concentrate primarily on European history. I am one of the very few for Civil War times. When trying to explain how I landed there, I usually say it is because it is my history, happening on the ground I am standing on. I do have an interest in all the history of my place but my heart tends to be in the CW time. I know there is a better explanation. I have noticed that 150 years later there is still such emotion with this subject that does not happen with any other war. On this board or any other one, once the subject of the Civil War comes up tempers flare and keyboards catch fire. I am not sure why unless it is just the fact we were fighting ourselves, but the world wars or Korea or Vietnam do not seem to elicit this wellspring of emotion from those of us who never lived it. So why is that? And I do hope we are not about to divide again...